Brent crude trades near $104 on Thursday

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Brent crude oil, extracted from the North Sea, is trading on Thursday around $104 per barrel, with a price correction of 1.5%.

Since 2007, the benchmark Brent crude has been a blend of several grades of oil produced from offshore fields including Brent, Forties, Oseberg, and Ekofisk between the coasts of Norway and the UK.

The price difference between these Brent grades and Urals crude typically ranges from $8 to $20 per barrel.

Major trading platforms for oil include international commodity exchanges such as NYMEX (WTI, USA) and ICE (Brent, Europe), as well as regional exchanges like SPIMES (Urals, Russia) and SGX (Asia).

Trading takes place through futures and spot contracts linked to benchmark crude grades: American WTI, European Brent, and Asian Dubai/Oman, creating a global pricing framework.

This analysis was presented by Alexey Grishchenko, Doctor of Economics, Professor at the Department of Operational and Sectoral Management at the Faculty of "Higher School of Management" of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.